IPCC Report on Oceans – DECC leading
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are producing a special report on climate change and the oceans and the cryosphere (SROCC). The UK Focal Point, based in the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), is inviting expressions of interest from UK experts to participate in the scoping of this special report. A Scoping Meeting will be held in the week of 5 December 2016 at a venue to be confirmed. The Scoping Meeting will result in a draft Scoping Paper describing the objectives and an annotated outline of the Special Report as well as the process and timeline for its preparation. The Panel, at its 45th Session to be held in March 2017, will review the draft Scoping Paper and will decide on further IPCC work on this Special Report. Participation in the Scoping Meeting for this Special Report will be decided by the IPCC and does not imply the participant will then be selected as an author. Author selection will be carried out by a separate, later, process. To apply applicants must have expertise in at least one of the fields identified by the IPPC.
IPCC: A call for expert nominations was issued to Governments, Observer Organizations and IPCC Bureau members on 17 June 2016, requesting them to submit nominations via their focal points before Friday, 29 July 2016 midnight CEST. Relevant expertise for the Scoping Meeting will be diverse, as the proposed Special Report will integrate information and perspectives across the domains of all the three Working Groups of the IPCC. Participants in the meeting should collectively have expertise in the following areas:
Oceans and cryosphere in the climate system: interactions, drivers, mass and energy exchange, carbon storage and fluxes (including submarine and terrestrial permafrost), climate feedbacks (e.g., albedo), timescales of responses, abrupt change, irreversibility. Click here to read more.
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